Because many staple foods started to be enriched with vitamins, iodine, etc. in order to prevent diseases that were affecting the American population such as cretinism, rickets or scurvy.
Because some diseases are caused by the lack of some nutrients. For instance: iodine and salt prevent cretinism, with vitamin D and milk there was no more rickets; and vitamin C got rid scurvy. But the process of getting this enriching food in poor countries is very difficult.
These enriching stapled foods had in their composition many nutrients as vitamins or minerals that human's body needs in order to works correctly. If we have a lack of one of these nutrients, diseases will appear as a signal of nutritional deficiency. For that reason, this change in society diet have highly contribute to improve people's health. Nevertheless, poor countries don't have the resources to make this nutritional change, and people continue dying because of diseases related with this lack of nutrients.
By enriching some ingredients of our diets, they produced a massive improvement in general health because they were able to make some diets less dangerous, eradicating illnesses like pellagra.
These enriched stapled foods, contain many nutrients that make a significant impact in one's overall health. As we have seen, the diet we follow plays a very important role in our well-being. The introduction of these foods, like flour for example, contributed to getting rid of many nutritional diseases, although not everywhere, since in poor countries these problems continued happening.
Because some diseases are caused by the lack of some nutrients (for example, iodine and salt prevent cretinism; vitamin D prevents rickets; and vitamin C prevents scurvy).So, the enrichement of staple foods allowed this diseases to disappear from the countries that could afford this food.
The enriching staple food had in their composition, minerals and vitamins that helped treat nutricional diseases. The lack of those vitamins and minerals in the diet of thousands of people caused serious deseases. With a simple shopping trip people would be able to prevent the appearance of such pathologies.
Becouse to have better health we need eat esential nutrients through food.
Because many staple foods started to be enriched with vitamins, iodine, etc. in order to prevent diseases that were affecting the American population such as cretinism, rickets or scurvy.
Because some diseases are caused by the lack of some nutrients. For instance: iodine and salt prevent cretinism, with vitamin D and milk there was no more rickets; and vitamin C got rid scurvy. But the process of getting this enriching food in poor countries is very difficult.
The easy accessibility to enriching staple foods ment easy accessibility to essentials nutrients that were able to highly improve public health.
These enriching stapled foods had in their composition many nutrients as vitamins or minerals that human's body needs in order to works correctly. If we have a lack of one of these nutrients, diseases will appear as a signal of nutritional deficiency. For that reason, this change in society diet have highly contribute to improve people's health. Nevertheless, poor countries don't have the resources to make this nutritional change, and people continue dying because of diseases related with this lack of nutrients.
By enriching some ingredients of our diets, they produced a massive improvement in general health because they were able to make some diets less dangerous, eradicating illnesses like pellagra.
These enriched stapled foods, contain many nutrients that make a significant impact in one's overall health. As we have seen, the diet we follow plays a very important role in our well-being. The introduction of these foods, like flour for example, contributed to getting rid of many nutritional diseases, although not everywhere, since in poor countries these problems continued happening.
Because some diseases are caused by the lack of some nutrients (for example, iodine and salt prevent cretinism; vitamin D prevents rickets; and vitamin C prevents scurvy).So, the enrichement of staple foods allowed this diseases to disappear from the countries that could afford this food.
The big problem with these diseases is that not everyone has access to the full range of vitamins and nutrients that the human body needs.
The enriching staple food had in their composition, minerals and vitamins that helped treat nutricional diseases. The lack of those vitamins and minerals in the diet of thousands of people caused serious deseases. With a simple shopping trip people would be able to prevent the appearance of such pathologies.